Pictures of the Week.จาก TIMEs

Ghosts of the Past
Library assistants pose with Scotland's oldest surviving book, a pocket-size Book of Psalms, at the University of Edinburgh. Dated to the 11th century, the book was most likely produced at the monastery of Iona, and probably commissioned for a figure of some importance such as St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland.

Gridlock

Taxi drivers in Taipei protest the government's decision to allow a taxi company to have the rights to queue at the Taipei Bus Station to pick up passengers

Holy Father

Pope Benedict XVI waves from his Popemobile on his way to the Spanish Steps in Rome for the traditional prayer on the day celebrating the Immaculate Conception

Gimme Gimme

Birds wait for Laura Quinn, the founder of the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center, to get fish for them in Tavernier, Florida

Tough Guys

An American Army soldier runs during a game of mud football at a base in Khan Neshin, Helmand province, Afghanistan

Careful

Police officers stand guard outside the medical center where Fazal Haq Qureshi, a leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, is being treated. Gunmen shot the separatist leader, who has supported peace talks in the Indian portion of Kashmir, as he came out of a mosque

Hellish

Pakistanis gather at the site of a bomb blast in Lahore that killed at least 15 people.

Remains

Forensic examiners place the body of an unidentified man into a plastic bag on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico. The police did not release any information regarding the man's death.